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The denominations of those coins seem originally to have
expressed the weight or quantity of metal contained in them. In
the time of Servius Tullius, who first coined money at Rome, the
Roman as or pondo contained a Roman pound of good copper. It was
divided in the same manner as our Troyes pound, into twelve
ounces, each of which contained a real ounce of good copper. The
English pound sterling, in the time of Edward I, contained a
pound, Tower weight, of silver, of a known fineness. The Tower
pound seems to have been something more than the Roman pound, and
something less than the Troyes pound. This last was not
introduced into the mint of England till the 18th of Henry VIII.
The French livre contained in the time of Charlemagne a pound,
Troyes weight, of silver of a known fineness. The fair of Troyes
in Champaign was at that time frequented by all the nations of
Europe, and the weights and measures of so famous a market were
generally known and esteemed. The Scots money pound contained,
from the time of Alexander the First to that of Robert Bruce, a
pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the English
pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too,
contained all of them originally a real pennyweight of silver,
the twentieth part of an ounce, and the two-hundred-and-fortieth
part of a pound. The shilling too seems originally to have been
the denomination of a weight. When wheat is at twelve shillings
the quarter, says an ancient statute of Henry III, then wastel
bread of a farthing shall weigh eleven shillings and four pence.

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